Mark Hurd, CEO, President, and Chair of Hewlett-Packard, speaks as part of the Deans Speaker Series at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. Since taking the helm of HP in early 2005, Hurd has sharpened the company’s focus on key growth opportunities, increasing revenue from $80 billion in fiscal year 2004 to $118.4 billion in fiscal 2008. (October 8, 2009)
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/
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Does anyone else …
Does anyone else find his glasses distracting?
Dave Packard …
Dave Packard himself once said that more companies die of indigestion than starvation, be careful of your acquisitions!
That logic is obviously lost on Mr Hurd as he continues to gobble up companies left and right to increase marketshare. I hope the board and HP employees hold him accountable when HP buckles at the knees.
mark hurd bougth …
mark hurd bougth voodoo the gaming pc maker and it lost its value(where as dell bought alienware the gaming pc maker and alienware prospered), mark bought EDS and there is a high level of attrition in it, he bought 3com to compete cisco & god only knows whats gonna happen..now he is trying to buy EMC2 which is known for its employee satisfaction from years and cisco is trying to get EMC2 too. i hope cisco gets it so that emc2(which also owns vmware) it’s employees wont suffer like us.
Mark Hurd is losing …
Mark Hurd is losing HP’s best people by not having HP an employee friendly – By decreasing pays, no hikes even HP buys bigger companies of 3 Billion dollars worth.. its bad for a company which is not taking care of its work force.
he’s got serious …
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he’s got serious issues
Great questions. …
Great questions. Unfortunately, Mr Hurd shields himself from the real questions. His talks, or townhalls, are all clearly orchestrated, as are the questions. He is a 100% greedy coward.
But thanks at least …
But thanks at least for being willing to talk with students in a setting that excluded such type of questions. That is still worth something.
7. Just because you …
7. Just because you CAN go after more profit, does it always mean you SHOULD, if you have to do it by cutting pay and benefits, replacing domestic workers with foreign workers, and forcing fewer people to work longer hours for the same or less pay and benefits? What is OK to do in the name of shareholder value, and what is not OK?
8. Can you try not to use the word “planet” so often? (“best on the planet”) I counted 8 times in this video.
…And there are so many other questions…
5. As head of a …
5. As head of a global company, have you tried to learn any foreign languages?
6. Having already earned maybe $100 million, why don’t you retire and spend more time with your family and pursuing outside interests? Is selling ink and equipment and enterprises services that exciting?
3. How can it …
3. How can it possibly be ethical for you to simultaneously hold the positions of CEO and Chairman of the Board, since the former should be reporting to the latter?
4. You seem to think company culture has to do with getting people to understand and fit in with your strategy. In reality, it’s about employees trusting that you will do right by them. Are you doing right by them?
Some possible …
Some possible questions:
1. As the CEO of a global company based in the US, is your interest aligned with the US national interest? When exactly are you acting in a patriotic manner, and when are you not, and does it even matter?
2. As you cut jobs, yet hope for more consumer demand, are you not contributing to a paradox that is actually hurting the country?
Mark Hurd has some …
Mark Hurd has some interesting statistics at his disposal, and comes off as a humble, friendly, engaging, and knowledgeable guy, a wise mentor to the next generation.
The students’ questions to their guest were understandably all very polite and safe. But it is the questions NOT asked that tell the rest of the story. By asking the right questions, students could have shown Hurd to be less wise, less friendly, and more protective of a system that benefits him while harming many. (continued)
I’ve seen many ” …
I’ve seen many “coffee talks” of Mark Hurd, he always does that
this video should …
this video should be titled: glasses on….glasses off…repeat